Combination vanity box



} S. MORRISON CONBINATIQN VANITY BOX Filed Sent 28 1922 Wm MOM/50W Smvew/Coz Fateiited May 15, 1923.

UNHTEE GOMBINATIQN VANITY 302:.

Application filed September 28, 1922. Serial No. 591,617.

To all whomit may concern.

Be it known that 1, Sure): MORRISON, citizen of the United States, and resident of Xew York, in the county of New York and State of New York. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Vanity Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vanity cases and has for its main object to provide a device of the mentioned character which will combine two vanity boxes and a-mirror device in one unit so that the user may.

conveniently have at her disposal mirrors and several containers of powders, rouge and other cosmetic devices simultaneously and be enabled to easil hold them all with one hand while using the different devices with her other hand.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device of the mentioned character which will be compact in construction, attractive in appearance, durable in use, and comparatively cheap and easy to manufacture. The invention has further objects which will be understood from the detailed description of the same hereinafter to follow:

The invention consists of a central box or casing and two opposingly placed outside boxes closing in a telescopic way on said central box at its opposing ends and being united with the same with my special unitary hinge construction more fully described in my application for Letters Patent for vanity case, filed July .15, 1922, Serial No. 575,264, of which this invention is a modification and an improvement. Said central box contains in a novel easily removable manner' the compact for the powder, the bottom of said box serving as a mirror surface while said lower box has a removable annular member having one or more recesses for cosmetic preparations, and the upper box serving as a final closing member for my vanity case, the inside of the same having a mirror surface thereon.

The invention further consists in the novel construction, arrangement and com bination of details as will be hereinafter described and claimed. In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1, is a perspect ive'view of my vanity case 1n an open position;

Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional view of the same in a closed situation;

Fig. 4, is a plan view of a device used to hold the compact of powder in its place in the middle box of my device; while Fig. 3, is a sectional view of the same, the section being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 4:;

Fig. 5, is an elevational view of the annular member used in the lower box of my device;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the same, the section being taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5; and

Fig. 7 is a sectional perspective view of a modification of said annular member.

The central box of my vanity case is indicated by'the numeral 8 while the characters 9 and 10 represent the lower and upper boxes, respectively. The central box 8 has a circular disk. 11, placed at its bottom, said disk preferably being made of glass and having a. lower mirror surface 12. The bottom of the box 8 has a circular opening 13 out therein through which the mirror surface 12 is exposed and may be used for reflecting the countenance of the user. A metallic holder 14 is placed on top of said mirror disk in said middle box and the powder compact 15 may be secured thereon by any suitable means, as in this case by the cars 16 provided on the circumference of said metallic holder. The compact 15 is fastened on a glass plate 17 and after having been used up, ears16 may be opened, the glass disk 17 removed and replaced bv a new one, having a fresh compact of powder on it. The holder 14 is secured in its place in the middle box 8 by its friction on the walls of said box or the depression 18 made in the wall of said box for receiving the hinge construction, may also be used to keep the holder 14 in its place. Finally, one or more of the ears 16 may be also used for this purpose by bendingthem into the ornamental beading 19 in the side wall of box 8. A powder puff 20 of any suitable make may be placed on top of the compact 15 to be readily on hand when the use of it is desired. The upper box 10 is provided at its bottom. with a plate 21 preferably made of glass and kept in position by an elastic ring 22. The inside of said plate 21 is a mirror surface 23 and can be used in connection with the powder compact 15 and pad 20, contained in the middle box 8. The inside space in the lower box 9 is partly filled with the raised ring 24.,Said ring has a downwardly extending tube like central portion 25 and is kept in its position by the friction of its outside circumference 26 on the side walls of box 9 while the lower opening or mouth 27 of said tube like extension is resting on the bottom of said box. Within this tube or depression 25, I employ a further compact 28, preferably of rouge or other cosmetic material to be usedin connection with the powder in compact 15 of the middle box. The compact in this case also may have a resting glass disk 29 wh ch is kept in position by the elasticity of the walls of the depression 25, said Walls having slots 30 cut therein and the diameter of said depression being somewhat smaller than the diameter of the glass disk 29. The ring 24 may have a small cut out portion 31 at an appropriate point of its circumference which serves to facilitate the removal of said ring from box 9. A further powder puff 32 may be employed in connection with the lower compact 28.

F ig. 7 shows another modification of this raised annular ring used in connection with the lower box 9. The ring 33 has in this case two depressions 34 and 35, one of which may contain a compact of rouge as before while the other may be left empty to be used for the powder puff or other article one may desire to place in the same. In the same Way said ring may have more than two depressions, receptacles, and the like, formed therein for powder, rouge, powder puff or even perfume bottle, lip stick or similar articles.

The three elements or boxes of my vanity case may be combined and rotatably secured to each other with the unitary hinge construction 36, referred to hereinbefore, while the closing may be executed by a nose and receiving recess device 37, or by any other suitable means.

As will be seen by inspecting the drawings, my device has important improvements and advantages against most of the similar devices used at present. Asidefromsuch advantages as has been mentioned hereinbefore, I considerone of them the ease and facility with which the used up rouge and powder compacts and disks can be removed and replaced by new ones, thereby making the life of the vanity case almost indefinite. Most of these devices are held in my vanity case by frictional or by elastic means, having slots, openings, ears and the like whereby they may be easily caught by or released from their holders. Another important advantage of my device isthat it contains in a very compact form and in a very small space nearly all cosmetic devices and substances of 'every day use, at the same time having the mirrors, powder puffs, etc, arranged in a practical way in regard to their accessibility and to the economical use of the different spaces within and portions of my vanity case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new'and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. A combination vanity case, comprising a central box and two outside boxes, said two outside boxes closing on said central box in a telescopic manner; 'aunitary hinge construction to rotatably connect said three boxes; a powder compact or similar cosmetic preparation at one side of said central box and a mirror surface at the other side; a partition in one of said outside boxes, said partition having recesses therein to receive cosmetic preparations and the like; a mirror surface at the bottom of the other one of said 'outside boxes, and releasable means to keep said outside boxes in a closed position on said central box.

2. A combination vanity case, comprising a central box and two opposingly placed outside boxes closing on said central box in a telescopic manner and having releasable means to keep them in said closed position; a unitary hinge construction to rotatably connect said three boxes; an opening in the bottom of said central box in cooperation with a disk placed in said central box having a mirror surface exposed through said opening; a cosmetic preparation in said central box secured above said mirror disk; a partition in the lower box having a tube like extension resting on the bottom of said box and adapted to receive a cosmetic preparation, and a mirror disk secured to the bottom of the upper box.

3. The combination in a vanity caseof a lower box, a central compact carrier box therein, an upper b'ox comprising a cover for the central box, said central box having a mirror surface exposed through an opening in the bottom thereof, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with a vanity box of a ring like partition in said vanity box having a tube like downwardly extending portion, said portion resting on the bottom of said vanity box and being adapted to receive cosmetic preparations, like powder compacts,

therein and having vertical slots in its walls adapted to increase its elastic grip on said cosmetic preparations.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 23rd day of September, A. D. 1922.

siMoN MORRISON. 

